E-SWAT: City Under Seige

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Check out manual and footage of SEGA's arcade actioner on the Genny.

By Levi Buchanan

The SEGA Genesis achieved a great deal of success on the back of its arcade ports. If you showed your love to AM2 and SEGA's other studio's one quarter at a time, the Genesis was your console of choice. Among SEGA's stable was a smaller action game called E-SWAT, which took inspirado from Robocop. A police officer is slammed inside a metallic exo-suit and sent into a futuristic metropolis suffering from criminal rot. Bullets and bloodshed ensue. When E-SWAT came home, though, SEGA made a number of changes to the game, from the basics of shrinking the sprite sizes to rearranging stage design.

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It's an interesting game to check out if you are a SEGA fan, but admittedly, it's no blockbuster. As part of our on-going historical efforts here at IGN Retro, though, we bring you a huge gallery of screens from the Genesis port, as well as its manual scans, and gameplay footage.

Stage 4 of E-SWAT on the Genesis.

If you are assembling a library of SEGA arcade games for your Genesis -- and I wholeheartedly suggest you do so -- E-SWAT should be somewhere farther down the list from games like After Burner, OutRun, and Shadow Dancer. Mmm… Shadow Dancer. Now when's that going to come out here on our Virtual Console?